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POLITICAL: merts made wnon the "perpetually leased” lands and Wort hn millions of dollars, ~~ | To estimate the effect of the Sunreme Court decisions uron tre Jepenese on the Pacific Coast we must invoke stetistics, The Stite of: | Washington has @ land area of 42,775,040 acres, of which 0,575,546 . Mettawa AST fakaxvst Aamo na Me eatota haa P79 Cf: a OY et ‘— wl Wah We Ld tate oe > te bo Cel te ci es ai guy: a nals) a wn ae Nt Tat tm k a 4 fo as Japanese of whom some 2,000 are farmers, Ferm lands cultivatel by a these Janénese farmers under lease amount to 20,500 acres. No leni hes mat evar been owned br Jarsnese there, because the state hed always denied! Yand ovnershin to eliens. | Ovecon has @ lang eves of CL,IEL,20C sores, Téve Japimese ee! ec4 in number, cultivate sore 10,000 acres in ell. The erux of the problem is in Celifornis, The populetion af Cele ifomia is 2,426,526, of wiich 2 per cemt is Javanese. Its land ares f- AR F898 BON naman aSowtdah Of AA AOD ta. Pow Tens OF thse farvr i Pree hg GUY BU Lee, Wl Wlitid BO, gee 2B Lieb bode Wet tk land about 1.6 per cemt or some 458,000 acres is cultivated by Japsen- ese, Acreage cultivcted by them may be classified as follows: 1. Owned by Jepsnese individuals 26,9865 2 Owned by American corporations with Japanese | shareholders 47,761 S, Cultivated by Japanese under lease 192,150 4, Cultivated under or@sharve cont rect 191,000 5, Cultiveted under labor oontract 70,10" Since 1913 the land law of California has prohibited land owmer- | ship by aliens ineligible to oltizenship. In 1920 the stcte adoptec | ar initiative Lav: by which ineligible aliens are prohibited from own | | ny sLbaivet inc ing stock in lend-holdine American corporations, and srom eultivet ing I—llbe